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I. The Oneida community -- II. The children's house : An east room child -- I graduate to the south room -- A child's world -- My mother -- I begin to look around -- "Lucifer, son of the morning" -- Boyhood -- School, work and meeting -- "Scrapes" -- The outside -- The community at work -- Oneida communism -- Recreation -- III. The breakup : Disintegration -- The beginning of retreat -- Joint-stock looms -- Last days -- IV. Rebirth : The plunge -- Vineland -- The barn fire -- Readjustments -- My father again -- Family relations -- I accept fate -- I would be a carpenter -- I become a turkey street boy -- V. Emergence : Repatriation -- A year with my father -- The Kelly house -- Camp meeting -- Farewell to my father -- An interim -- On my own at last

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